I'm not, like, a better writer than women generally, I'm not even a better writer than the women I follow on Twitter But most everyone I follow on Twitter is more thoughtful and a better communicator than Rowling
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
Is this opinion colored by her horrific politics? Of course it is I do, however, upon consideration, stand by it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
"I can't think clearly because I'm overrun with emotions at the horror of seeing a woman who thinks biology should be acknowledged in discussions of women's oppression", basically.
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Replying to @riverhills_xx @jkfecke
Nah my opinion of her writing, her success and the political/commercial circumstances of that success had been souring for years I mean Alan Moore made Harry Potter the Antichrist in his comic in 2012 and I basically came around to thinking he had a point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
At least admit that this pile-on is largely politically motivated, dude. If JKR was a good girl, submissive to the political desires of the most left-wing activists, no one would be insulting her now.
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Replying to @riverhills_xx @jkfecke
I just told you Alan Moore made Harry Potter into the Antichrist in his comic in 2012
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
The last really big backlash on JKR before this was over her retconning Nagini into always having been a human, and the one before that was saying that wizards used to poop on the floor before toilets were invented I wouldn't call those "political", exactly
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jkfecke
(Although making Nagini into an *Asian* human in particular was kinda racist) But no, there's been a steady buildup of annoyance at JKR for a while now, and an ongoing backlash to the books' outsize popularity ("Read another book!" is a meme about it)
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Amelia Bloody Rose Retweeted Amelia Bloody Rose
For me it started with Goblet of Fire, when Hermione being appalled at the treatment of house elves was treated as a joke, and it just got worse from there as the characters continued to be unlikable people making bad decisions and never changed. Also:https://twitter.com/AmeliaRoseWrite/status/1280353342560956416?s=20 …
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Amelia Bloody Rose @AmeliaRoseWriteReplying to @UrsulaV @ZREllorI have a special resentment for the way bookstores slapped "Like Harry Potter? Try these!" onto authors like Tamora Pierce, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen, etc. I know, I know, most kids weren't like me and were new to this, but HOW DARE THEY IMPLY THE GRANDES DAMES ARE CHEAP KNOCKOFFS3 replies 6 retweets 65 likes -
Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @jkfecke
Yes, I don't think people appreciate that the backlash to JKR from *within the fantasy genre* is very old and has been there a long time A backlash that exists precisely because most mainstream commentators just ignore the genre community and see Harry Potter as sui generis
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I mean this happens all the time Margaret Atwood caught a lot of shit for basically refusing to acknowledge that The Handmaid's Tale does, in fact, "count" as a science fiction book
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And that there are many feminist dystopias by women authors like it that were sold as science fiction in stores and never broke out of that box but for various, mostly arbitrary reasons Atwood got that mainstream literary cred
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I think this is unfortunately normal - it's how the concept of the "genre ghetto" works, and it's not really Atwood's fault, and it's kind of a waste of time to get mad about it But Rowling really was a particularly bad case
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